Today we continued East 263 miles to Rivers Crossing Campground & Marina on the Erie Canal in Savannah, NY just North of the finger lakes. We departed Geneva State Park Campground at 9:15AM EDT and arrived at the campground at 2:15PM EDT. We decided to pay the tolls and drive I-90 the entire way and stopped for fuel at a TA Travel Center in Corfu, NY where we also ate the sandwiches that Beth had prepared for lunch.
Interestingly, Mom & Dad stayed in this campground over a decade ago on a trip to Maine. At that time the campground had a different name and owners. There are a lot of seasonal campers here, but the campground is well maintained. The new owners purchased the campground four years ago. When we arrived at our site, there was no power at our electrical post and Beth walked back to the office to report the issue. While she was gone, a neighbor arrived home and I asked her if she was aware of any breakers for the electrical post. She pointed out that our power post was previously on the other side of our camper shared by our other neighbor and that I needed to turn on a breaker over there. Once we got the power going and the air conditioners fired up, I noticed that our voltage was very low (110v). It was very hot (91 degrees) and I noticed that the air conditioners on all the campers surrounding us were running. By the time we got setup and moved inside to cool off, our Electrical Management System (EMS) had shutdown our power due to low voltage. This is a built-in fail-safe to prevent us from burning up our AC compressors by running at too low a voltage. This is a difficult scenario to explain to a campground owner/manager. They tend to believe it’s our issue because all of our neighbor’s are up and running and blissfully ignorant of the damage they are doing to their systems. So, rather than waste time reporting it to the campground owners, we limped along on one air conditioner until I figured out how to stop our DC Converter from charging our batteries. At that point we were able to fire up the second air conditioner and just barely get by (our voltage was still very low (108v). Once the sun set, everyone’s power consumption dropped and the voltage climbed back up to 115v. They probably don’t have this problem very often since the temperatures here don’t often get this high.
We have full hookups and very few trees allowing our Dish antenna to pickup satellites 61.5, 110, & 119. Our AT&T hotspot connection is receiving excellent connectivity at 181/25 Mbps download/upload speeds. We didn’t try our TV antenna, but we are close enough to Rochester that I imagine we would pickup a lot of channels.
